Custom Races (For stunt mode probably)

[Ransom]

How about being able to create a race track of your own around Vice.

What you would do is go somewhere to activate the race layout. You could walk around vice city and push a certain button which would place a start position marker bubble, checkpoint marker bubbles the cars have to pass through, and finally a finish marker bubble. You could only place so many checkpoint marker bubbles of course (hopefully a lot). When its finished the person could have a countdown until the race starts (if noone joins then its cancelled). If anyone wants to join they just get to the first bubble (starting line) and wait for the timer to expire and the race will start. The timers would be small in the corner of the screen to all the server and it would stretch out across the bottom to show info only if you were in the race.

I don't know how outlandish this sounds, I've gotten good at some GTAVC scm editing for my mods and this seems possible since everything needed is in the game, it just needs to be controlled. Except I don't know how you would tell the bubble markers to be where you are positioned. There are of course some things in the opcodes about checkpoints (GTAVC's scm codes that have been figured out and explained publicly HERE)

Another issue would be if everyone did it, there would be some kind of limit. Like only 1 or 2 people can make tracks at a time maximum.

I'm sure this is entirely possible, as markers are followed during certain missions, they can probably be created at the player's coordinates, so moving around the city placing markers might be possible?

[Dgtadude]

VERY NICE idea dude

It would work very nicely ...

One thing i would add is . say these people gathered in a place and want to race , the admin of the server should give control to the "racer admin"(guy who's organizing the race) and only he could make the track , it would be cool if this selected person could have some special controls . on who won the race , time and some other stuff

Great idea

[Ransom]

Yea Dgtadude, I think you get my drift. What I am saying is this could be something in stunt mode you could activate, but max 1 or 2 track makers at a time as obviously it would take lots of resources to run more. Then after the track is made, timer goes down, and if nobody comes it ends so someone can try to make a course if they want.

Oh and the same person would have to wait a certain amount of time before he could start another one, so he can't attempt to steal all the race track making turns one after another.

[Stift_Me]

Lol thats a pretty good idea but it sounds way to hard for me

[orappa]

Is this just a one-off thing or could tracks be saved?

[Ransom]

I was thinking just a one time thing, I think it would waste too much resources to just have everyone save their tracks and have new ones being made. Maybe the tracks could be saved in a special way on the player's computer in a file, which would just store the bubble create coordinates, incase you want to call it up again, but I don't think its a good idea to have it directly stored into the game.

[l2ebel]

Has been mentioned before, plz search next time Ransom

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just kidding

but heres another of these race discussion threads: http://forum.mtavc.com/viewtopic.php?t= ... sc&start=0

[Ransom]

Yea thx for bringing that up rebel, its somewhat the same idea, except they want to use radar for it. It seems much easier to make a reality if you go around placing them ingame I think.

You could also maybe make 4 hotrings drop at the startline. You could get into them but you could not move until the race starts, so someone can't just run off. If they do during the race... well oh well. I guess you can't stop a determined destroyer.

If that hotring drop was used, I'd make the coding do a check so they could only place start markers on roads (so cars don't drop strangely).

If this was used I think it'd be certain you could only have one person making a track at a time (storing one full set of markers, only having 4 hotrings for dropping instead of , but it sure would be nice to have.

[Si|ent]

This has been discussed before. More than once. We have always said racing would be supported at some point. No promises when.

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